Most are pulling 12-hour (7 a.m. to 7 p.m.) shifts during a record-setting heat wave.
Drought: a nationwide heat wave that broke 3, 215 high temperature daily records this past June.
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Right now, this is a firestorm in a heat wave — not unlike many others I have seen.
This summer we have been absolutely bombarded with stories about the summer heat wave in the United States.
The cause was a rolling brownout, due to a California heat wave and excessive use of air conditioning.
The fourth Wednesday of July 2005 was the fifteenth day of a searing heat wave in the Northeast.
The power has gone south to cool off the United States' north-east, which baked in July's heat wave.
This was, after all, the year of the epic summer heat wave, the hottest August ever recorded in the northern hemisphere.
As parts of Europe are engulfed by a brutal heat wave this summer, it makes one wonder: Who's getting it the worst?
It got me to thinking about a venture capitalist friend who died cycling in France in 2002 during an August heat wave.
But when a heat wave pushed temperatures into the lower 90s Fahrenheit, organizers and local officials postponed the race until another day.
Second: The death toll in the Chicago heat wave had passed 100.
No, it's not because you've got the AC cranked at 68 degrees in response to this freaking heat wave that's been hitting the Northeast.
Millions of people were left in the dark, with no power, no telephones, no internet, and no air-conditioning during the worst heat wave in years.
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Intel has warned that if the heat wave continues, the guts of a PC will one day generate the same heat--10, 800 degrees--as the surface of the sun.
In some hospitals, lifesaving equipment dates back to the Soviet era, and air conditioning is a rarity — even after 11, 000 Muscovites died in a heat wave last year.
In Delhi, the national capital, a recent heat wave compelled the government to mandate early shuttering of stores and a ban on home air-conditioner use until after 9 p.m.
It does not help that India is reeling under a heat wave that has claimed some 250 lives, half in Rajasthan (the state where India's nuclear tests took place).
It is more likely that cycling combined with the dehydrating effects of a ten-hour plane trip plus a heat wave threw his electrolytes out of balance and triggered an event.
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